Rise to the Beauty of the World
Category: Not Being A Gnostic; How to be a Better Human
I like Gretchen Rubin, but I like people who can use themselves as guinea pigs and write about it. and she’s delightful because she can notice her extremes and turn towards a more moderate position. But her extremes are the virtuous pagan’s - she is more likely to work too hard or force everyone to not eat sugar, so the direction she needs to push is funny in our passion crazed culture.
In this book she’s really working hard to engage with the body she’s been given because she will lose it. She realizes she’s using it as a car for her brain and she is losing time with things like her eyesight. So each section leans in to a sense, but she never gets bawdy or racy.
At the very end she reveals she did try Iowaska (no idea how that is spelled), so my prayer is she doesn’t take a Michael Pollan trajectory, but it isn’t really here.
This book is fun and helpful, good for those who need help with nature study, not going so fast you don’t see, and not being an ingrate.

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